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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Sure, and sorry to cut across Ms Morrogh as my time is nearly up. Is anything being done about that? It may be listed in the cancer strategy but is anything happening to tackle that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, I thank Ms Morrogh for that. The Irish Cancer Society acknowledged earlier the additional resources that have been provided in recent years. In some services the problem is now that there are resources but no staff and that is the difficulty. Would Ms power say that applies to cancer services generally? I am particularly asking about radiation therapy where we are told there is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, absolutely. Finally, are we training enough radiation therapists? I fully accept what Ms Power said about healthcare workers generally who are leaving because of stress, house prices and all those other things. In terms of training places are we training adequate numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I know the answer to that. It is definitely in the negative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, that is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Thank-you very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is damning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome the delegations and thank them for their presentations. There has been a lot of talk about the impact of Covid on cancer services and the increasing numbers of undiagnosed cancers, which are concerning but also distort what is happening to a certain extent. I wish to discuss the pre-Covid period. We saw in the media today a report by the National Cancer Registry Ireland, NCRI,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I want to discuss specifics. The report contains a lot of generalities and part of that is because we do not have good data. A lack of good data holds everybody back and is a major problem within the health service. Earlier I posed the same question to the Irish Cancer Society and was told that two standout issues affect low-income communities when it comes to cancer services: low uptake...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Am I correct that the professor does not know about the uptake of screening services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is this not a key issue for the programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does anybody here know the uptake of screening based on socioeconomic profiles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am keen to hear the data. How big is the gap in uptake based on socioeconomic situations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that not a little concerning given that the HSE officials present are responsible for the programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I thought the poor uptake of screening would be an issue with which the cancer control programme would concern itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I find it surprising that the national cancer control programme does not. I also raised the issue of access to diagnostics for people who cannot afford to pay privately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does Professor Ó Laoide recognise as a major issue the fact that people in Ireland cannot get access to public diagnostics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What is being done about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What are the waiting lists like for cancer diagnostics?